Play of the Self

At the University of Georgia Ronald Bogue is Professor and Head of the Comparative Literature Department and Mihai I. Spariosu is Professor of Comparative Literature.

• Editors' ForewordPart One: The Thoughtful Self: Mind, Memory, and Desire 1. Foucault, Deleuze, and the Playful Fold of the SelfRonald Bogue2. Mimesis and Anamnesis: Deconstruction of Metaphysics and Reconstruction of PsycheCristian Moraru 3. Mind's Mirrors: Some Early Versions of Contemporary Specular DiscourseKent Kraft4. Concepts of Mimesis in French and German Philosophical and Anthropological TheoryKarl Eckhardt Part Two: The Performative Self: Role, Ritual, and Cognition 5. No Escaping Obligation: Erving Goffman on the Demands and Constraints of PlayLori J. Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine6. Play and Linking Trajectories for Social Origins of CognitionJames Deegan and Anthony Pellegrini7. Redefining the Ludic: Mimesis, Expression, and the Festival ModeMichael J.C. Echeruo8. Nonsense and Metacommunication: Reflections on Lewis CarrollGabriele SchwabPart Three: The Expressive Self: Psyche, Image, and Power 9. Power and Play in the Orlando FuriosoGiuseppe Mazzotta10. Dissimulation on Display: The Feint of Power in Campanella's SceltaThomas Cerbu11. Orpheus: Nature and Psyche. From Allegory to Symbol in Titian, Rubens, and PoussinAngel Medina and Joyce Medina12. Body-Bildung in German ClassicismSusan Derwin

"The book covers extraordinary ground in literature, the arts, philosophy, and even the social sciences. The concern about the issue of self and the representations of self brings far-reaching ideas together in the most surprising and mutually illuminating ways. Poststructuralist and postmodernist critiques of self-identity have made the topic controversial and broadly relevant to all the fields represented. Extreme statements abound on both sides of the argument, and this book succeeds in marshaling subtle and nuanced thought on the topic. Each essay is neatly self-contained, remarkably relevant to other essays in the collection, and a model of illuminating argument, careful scholarship, and attractive writing." — William J. Kennedy, Cornell University